After an awesome company meeting in Tulsa, the first group of Vidoop peeps will arrive in Portland today! Lots of fun activities are planned, join us for Beer and Blog on Friday the 13th and hear @kveton and @mtrichardson explain DiSo. All the event info is here.
Then the entire Vidoop crew is going [...]
Yes indeed… Alex Polvi submitted an excellent video about how he identifies himself and won $1,000 that he is donating to the free open-source video platform, Miro. Vidoop will match this, bringing the total donation to Miro up to $2,000.
“Alex Polvi, friend of Miro and a community marketer for Mozilla, has won a Vidoop [...]
It is official, long time OSS advocates and developers Chris Messina and Will Norris will be joining a Vidoop team that has been tasked with building a truly open distributed social networking infrastructure. They will continue to lead efforts with the DiSo Project (http://diso-project.org). DiSo - distributed social networking applications, is an umbrella [...]
Luke Crouch is a developer working at SourceForge on the site engineering team. For those who do not know already SourceForge recently announced they are supporting OpenID as a relying party.
Scott and Luke talk about why SourceForge went OpenID, their support of the Open Source community, identity (why IDP vs. RP) and what issues [...]
The timing was serendipitous; we just got everything locked down here in the office, W+K had to reschedule, Dawn Foster introduced me to Jake Kuramoto at BarCampPortland, the result… Vidoop will be hosting Lunch 2.0 on Wednesday, May 28th 2008.
Lunch 2.0 started in Silicon Valley, though has made it’s way up the coast and [...]
After a fun filled week in San Francisco getting learn-ed on the Web 2.0 we are back in the Silicon Forest aka Portland. So far (other than the weather) this week is shaping up nicely.
Aaron Hockley’s post about only using OpenID has been a great catalyst for discussion. Specifically what is going on [...]
Just a quick post to let everyone know about some cool upcoming events, The Data Sharing Workshop and the Data Sharing Summit 2008. These are great community centric events that bring together people from several walks of on-line life; social networking, identity folks, data portability, etc.
“The goal of these events is to work together [...]
What? So this is a big leap for Ma.gnolia and OpenID… everyone’s favorite social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia has changed their join and sign-in pages and will now require users to sign up with a verified identity before they can contribute to the Ma.gnolia community…
Why such a change? Here is an excerpt from their most recent [...]
Just to recap, I’ve been writing about my philosophy of authentication, which I call sustainable authentication. So far, I’ve given two rules:
1. Authentication should remain relevant and viable in spite of advances in computing power.
2. The sustainable authentication system provides acceptable levels of security regardless of any user configuration.
The third and final principle of Sustainable [...]
In our second podcast George, Luke, and Scott sit down to chew the fat on the ifs, ands, and buts of what it would take, how the interent might look, etc. if everyone had corporate grade authentication…a great prelude to many titillating discussions to come.